Partner abuse, learned helplessness, and trauma symptoms.
Abstract
We examined (a) whether attributional style is related to trauma and depressive symptoms among battered women, and (b) whether women from a battered women's shelter report a more helpless (or hopeless) attributional style than do women from the community. Women from a woman's shelter (n = 49) and a comparison group of women from the community (n = 51) completed measures of attributional style, relationship conflict, and psychological distress. As expected, women from the shelter reported considerably higher levels of conflict and distress. Furthermore, attributional style contributed to the prediction of both depressive and trauma symptoms. However, there was no evidence that battered women's attributional style differed from that of other women. Overall, the results provided some support for the revised learned helplessness model, but they did not support Walker's (2000) contention that partner abuse results in learned helplessness.
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Interpersonally, individuals may develop mistrust, fear of intimacy, or maladaptive relational schemas, which can affect their ability to form and sustain healthy relationships in the future.
“Interpersonally, individuals may develop mistrust, fear of intimacy, or maladaptive relational schemas, which can affect their ability to form and sustain healthy relationships in the future (Palker-Corell and Marcus, 2004).”
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- Authors
- Palker-Corell, A., & Marcus, D. K.
- Affiliations
- Sam Houston State University (US)
- ORCID
- Marcus, David K.
- Venue
- Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
- Publisher
- Guilford Publications
- Published
- 2004-08
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 445-462
- ISSN
- 0736-7236 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2076593720
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 2.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- partner abuse, learned helplessness, attributional style, trauma symptoms, depressive symptoms, battered women, women's shelters, relationship conflict, psychological distress
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